{"id":294,"date":"2013-11-16T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T20:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dschein.mighty-little-websites.com\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2013-11-16T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T21:38:35","slug":"theory-spiritual-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/theory-spiritual-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory of Spiritual Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My doctoral work addresses the spiritual development of all young children. However, I also reflect upon how religion, culture, beliefs, values, and morals evolve from my theory of spiritual development, based upon several <a href=\"#assumptions\">assumptions<\/a> and my grounded theory study, which explores\u00a0early childhood educators\u2019 definitions of spiritual development in young children. It also describes and analyzes learning activities and experiences that either foster or inhibit a young child\u2019s spiritual development.<\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to sharing my evolving theory with you; please visit this area of my website again soon for more information.<\/em><br \/>\n<a name=\"assumptions\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Assumptions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Spirituality is an inborn, human trait.<\/li>\n<li>This innate trait must be nurtured to flourish. (Being in nature is one way to nurture spiritual development.)<\/li>\n<li>Spiritual development is a required component for quality early childhood education.<\/li>\n<li>More of the whole child is developed when spiritual development is added to a young child\u2019s life.<\/li>\n<li>Addressing spiritual development can lead to a better society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My doctoral work addresses the spiritual development of all young children. However, I also reflect upon how religion, culture, beliefs, values, and morals evolve from my theory of spiritual development, based upon several assumptions and my grounded theory study, which explores\u00a0early childhood educators\u2019 definitions of spiritual development in young children. It also describes and analyzes<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/theory-spiritual-development\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}